INFOBAHN Issue 1 Contributors

Premiere Issue Contributors

C. Douglas Baker (cb52@umail.umd.edu) is a Maryland writer and consultant.

Muffy Barkocy (muffy@fish.com) is a long-time computer programmer and computer addict. Her most recent addiction and career path is working on the World Wide Web.

Claire L. Benedikt (hands@io.com) began MUDding in 1989 and now finds time to write about her online experiences and philosophies for several magazines.

Sunah Cherwin (slippery@pobox.com) is the publisher of Slippery When Wet, which can be found on the Web at http://www.best.com/~slippery/home.html.

Steven Cooper (scoop@postmodern.com) is a Canadian freelance writer who spends far too much time surfing the Net.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes (djdaneh@pbhyc.pacbell.com) is one of the moderators of the science fiction/fantasy/horror book review newsgroup rec.arts.sf.reviews.

Jeff Elliott (je@crl.com) is a California writer who covers science, technology, and political affairs. His work has appeared in The Washington Monthly, National Review, Reason, and elsewhere.

Curtis Frye (cfrye@dgs.dgsys.com) is a Virginia-based freelance writer.

Joel Furr (jfurr@acpub.duke.edu) is a technical writer based in Durham, North Carolina. He is the official mascot of alt.folklore.urban. Information about his current net.collectables can be found on the Netstuff home page at http://www.danger.com/~jfurr/netstuff.html.

Blake Harris (blake@io.org) is a freelance writer, screenwriter and part-time research analyst for the Social Survival Research Group, a new future-oriented think tank.

Hal Hill (hal@cybergate.com) is a somewhat restless writer based in California. His work has appeared in various magazines including Amazing Stories and Seventeen.

Michael Hofferber (mhoutrider@aol.com) is an Idaho-based writer.

Crawford Kilian (ckilian@hubcap.mlnet.com) is a science-fiction author, a former politician soundly defeated in his bid for re-election, and a teacher of interactive writing at Capilano College in North Vancouver, Canada.

Eliot Lear (lear@postmodern.com) is an Internet engineer at a Silicon Valley company. He was Usenet newsgroup czar from 1989 to 1991, and is the co-author of RFC-1627.

Daniel Pinchbeck (danielp@echonyc.com) is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in WIRED and Swing.

Rudy Rucker (rucker@jupiter.sjsu.edu) is a novelist, mathematician, and iconoclast. "Tre's First Gig" is an excerpt from his work in progress, Freeware, a sequel to the two Philip K. Dick Award-winning novels collected in Live Robots (Avon, 1994).

Sandy Sandfort (sandfort@crl.com) is a freelance writer living and working in San Francisco and various other locations on earth and in cyberspace.

Lynn Van Sant (lvs@postmodern.com) is an (unlicensed) Internet consultant and programmer.

David Sewell (dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu) is an Arizona writer.

Jason Sneed (csp94@netcom.com) is a member of Constant Synthesis Project.

Putch Tu (putchtu@postmodern.com) studies various cyberpunk and cyberphreak subcultures, from those in the U.S. to the far-flung reaches of Canada, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and New Zealand. Despite an ivy league education and deep implication in the Silicon Valley boom of the 1980s, Putch counts herself among the willing survivors. She is at home on the road on her 1938 BMW R12. A version of "Route 666" previously appeared in Emigre.